New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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Iohn E. Annitto Peter V. O. Bisconti Henry Buermann Ioseph Lawrence Robert F. Morton Raymond F. Kiernan Robert D. McKay Iohn N. Code Ellsworth S. Deuel Robert T. Fielding Thomas Hartnett William A. Lynch S. Deane Hall Andrew E. Kedersha Henry P. Leis MEMBERS 1937 1938 1939 1940 lohn A. Mullen Nicholas A. Novalis Edward F. Rohmer Richard A. Rose Ioseph C. Messina Daniel I. O'Connell Iohn I. Reilly Louis S. Riccardi Charles E. Rosen George R. Santoro Leman W. Potter Iohn F. Schlecter Two hundred twenty on

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PHI ALPHA GAMMA Established in l894 GN March 25th, 1894, a group of seven students met in the Museum of the then New York Homeopathic Medical College to establish a medical fraternity with the definite intention of making such a fraternity a national organization. At that time, there were few medical fraternities of such a nature,-most of them being merely local or semi-local in scope. Many of these existed only for a short time and then passed into the limbo of the forgotten. The courage and vision of this group in the face of discouraging precedent kindled a fire which has continued to grow for -forty-three years in spite of the adverse storms to which any such organization must, of necessity, have been subjected in its earlier years. Their purpose was to unite, in a spirit of brotherhood, medical men having a common interest in their honest belief and understanding of the principles and practice of the Law of Similars. Hence their bequest and our heritage have grown through the years because of this spiritual bond which has ever been our guiding light,-despite the continual abolition of formal schools dedicated to the teachings of Hahnemann. Uudergraduate Chapters at first extended from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific coast. Since the decrease in the number of medical colleges and in particular those teaching Homeopathic Materia Medica, these have decreased in number to two Active Chapters-Alpha and Gamma. Following the tendency of the American Institute of Homeopathy to institute the teaching of the Law of Similars as a post-graduate study, Graduate Chapter charters were granted to groups in New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Providence, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Ohio, Iowa, Chicago, Michigan, Pitts- burgh, Kansas City, and Los Angeles. In interfraternity circles Phi Alpha Gamma has been a member of the Inter-Medical Fra- ternity Conference since its organization and some of its brothers have served that body as chief executive more than once. It is the only fraternity of the Homeopathic School to be so signally honored. Among the more illustrious members of this fraternity We find written in undying letters across the pages of history the names of: F. A. Dearborn I. S. Maeder Wm. Tod. Helrnuth Bukk G. Carleton Gilbert K. Fitzpatrick It has been the policy of Alpha Chapter to bring together a group numerically and per- sonally so constituted that each individual may take an active and whole-hearted interest in the activities of the Undergraduate Chapter and, also, add something of individual value to our worthy group of Alumni Chapters. Two hundred twenty

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PHI DELTA EPSILON Two hundrel twenty-two THE Phi Delta Epsilon fraternity was founded at Cornell University in 1904 by the union of Alpha Delta Sigma and the original chapter of Phi Delta Epsilon at that institution. Since its founding the fraternity has grown rapidly until it reached its present status of being practically the largest meclical fraternity in the world. There are at present 54 under- graduate chapters and graduate clubs in almost every medical college in the United States, and in most of the large cities in the World. The Omicron Chapter, under the able guidance of its past few consuls, has become one of the more active and largest chapters in the fraternity. There are at present 29 members in the chapter. The scholarship of its members has always been of a high standard and its custom of initi- ating men only when they have succeeded in reaching the Sophomore year has helped them maintain this high standard. ln addition to scholastic attainments, the chapter has always taken an active part in the undergraduate activities of the College. Ber- nard Abramowitz is a Senator on the Student Council. Hy Reinstein is Vice President of the Senior Class and also a member of the Fleuro- scope Staff. Other members of the Fleuroscope staff are Al Bagner and Sam Mallinger. I-ly Reinstein and Sid Green are members of the Contin Society, which is the honorary scholastic fraternity.